Have ever just decided to "have your cake and eat it too."?

Question

How did it work out for you? If it didn't, did you regret trying to? What did you lose or gain in the process and was it worth it?

Answer 1

hmmm... lemme see... it worked out okay for me, and i did regret trying to in the end. i gained some weight in the end but it was worth it :]

Answer 2

I love cake, anytime.

Answer 3

No, I usually just let my cake go stale. I'm allergic to wheat.

Answer 4

i like cake but usually i'll just eat the frosting and a little of the cake. Unless it's cheese cake, if it is I'm eating the whole d**n thing and in that situation I'd say the gain would be 3lbs. Great question.

Answer 5

I have tried to have my Kate & Edith too.

Fun, but a big waste of time, money & effort.

Answer 6

It is after-all just "a piece of cake", so why not? :)

Answer 7

Yep, when I was a kid the teachers and aunts and parents said that to me often and I got rather tired of hearing it. So what  I did was go out and buy all the ingredients for a cake. I bought bowls, mixing spoons, oven mitts, pans, and food dyes. I bought the sugar the icing sugar the specific Robin Hood flour, and the eggs and the chocolate and the vanilla as well. Along with all the other paraphernalia that goes with cakes.

I got out the cookbook, made a good study of what I had to do then preheated the oven while I worked my way through the mess for a cake.

I did all the work in one afternoon and when the cake was baked I'm the one who put the icing on it and I'm the one who ate the whole frigging thing!!! Didn't share it with mom, dad, my brothers, my sister, not even my girlfriend. It was my cake and I ate it too.

Course everyone was pissed with me because I wouldn't share but I proved my point. Got sick proving it but I made my point.

The point was " I can have my cake and eat it too if I'm the one paying for it and baking it myself ".

You know; non of my family have ever said that to me since. That was thirty years ago I did that.

The only thing I lost was one of my paycheques from my part time job. (I was only fifteen then) And of course I lost the cake because like I said, I got sick. But it was still my cake!!

Answer 8

What is the point of having the cake, if you arent going to eat it? Seems like a huge waste to me.

Answer 9

That only works with an actual cake. Metaphorically, it only happens if you win the lottery.

Answer 10

It's people looking out for themselves who put me where I am today. Wanting everything both ways is a distinctive feature of this wildly thriving set.

If I may chide a previous answerer for her profoundly optimistic faith in the moral structure of the universe, allow me to observe that many of these grasping folk do not seem to end up having to choose between eating and hoarding.

Answer 11

Cut the cake in half.  Keep one half and eat the other.  Then you'll both have your cake and be able to eat it.

Oh, you mean metaphorically.  Well, yes.  I tried to have two relationships at the same time (they both knew about each other).  It wasn't sustainable.  It did, however, focus my mind on what I actually wanted and now I have a lovely baby and wonderful relationship with the man I loved all along.

So I suppose it depends on what kind of cake you have baked and how big your appetite is.

Answer 12

It tasted good going down, but it is still on my hips.

Answer 13

Let them eat cake! lol poor peasants

Answer 14

It never works in real life.  Getting too greedy has its serious side-effects and you are forced to choose sooner or later.  You will always have regrets for what you had to abandon,  finally....

Answer 15

i have decided this recently - will let ya know how it goes... am hoping that there is never an outcome... treading water is a pleasant state...

Answer 16

Usually I prefer to experience life, and not try to hang onto every thing that comes along. So, I'm definitely an "eat that cake" kind of guy. There's always something more to experience, and that's not possible if I hang on to what may yet be, or might have been.

Answer 17

usually when I drink that is I drink and then I have the cake and drink some more then somewhere along the line that cake either comes back up or just plain chokes me.

Answer 18

i lost absolutly nothing :p

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